Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium (L.) Hilliard & Burtt ssp. obtusifolium

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Gnaphalium obtusifolium L., Gnaphalium polycephalum Michx., Gnaphalium polycephalus

Common names:

Balsam (1894NY) (75)

Balsamweed [Balsam weed, Balsam-weed] (1876?-1923) (5, 92, 156)

Cat foot (1892) (6)

Chafeweed [Chafe weed, Chafe-weed] (1876?-1923) (5, 92, 156)

Common everlasting (1900-1929) (62, 156, 157)

Eternal flower (1876) (92)

Featherweed [Feather weed, Feather-weed] (1892-1923?, Northern NY, seed heads used for bed filling, obsolete by 1923) (5, 73, 156, 157)

Field balsam (1929) (157)

Fragrant cudweed (1942-1986) (4, 155)

Fragrant everlasting (1892-1986) (3, 4, 6, 62)

Fragrant life-everlating [Fragrant life everlating] (1913-1923) (5, 156)

Fuzzy-guzzy [Fussy gussy, Fussy-gussy] (1892-1923?, Mansfield O, obsolete by 1923) (5, 73, 156)

Immerschön Ruhkraut (1892, German) (6)

Immortelle (1892, French) (6)

Indian posy [Indian posey] (1876?-1923?, Stonington CT; Southold Long Island, obsolete by 1923) (5, 6, 49, 75, 76, 92, 156)

Le Cotonnière (1892, French) (6)

Life everlasting (1929) (157)

Life-everlasting [Life everlasting] (1892-1929) (6, 57, 73, 145, 157)

Life-of-man [Life of man] (1892-1913, Stratham NH) (5, 73)

Live-forever [Live forever] (1876) (92)

Moonshine (1894-1929, Dorset VT) (5, 75, 156, 157)

Mouse-ear everlasting (1929) (157)

None-so-pretty (1892) (6)

Old-field balsam [Old field balsam] (1892-1929) (5, 6, 49, 73, 92, 156, 157)

Poverty-weed [Poverty weed] (1896-1923?, Paris ME, obsolete by 1923) (5, 76, 92, 157)

Rabbit-tobacco [Rabbit tobacco, Rabbittobacco] (1894-Present) (5, 50, 75, 156, 157)

Silver-leaf [Silver leaf] (1892) (6)

Sweet balsam (1876?-1929) (5, 62, 92, 156, 157)

Sweet life-everlasting [Sweet life everlasting] (1913) (5)

Sweet-scented life-everlasting [Sweet scented life everlasting] (1840-1898) (19, 49, 92)

White balsam (1870-1929) (5, 6, 61, 72, 92, 156, 157)